Quotes About Courage

She couldn't feel anything inside herself now but flat metallic strength.

La couleur du courage, c'est le brun

live your life as if you may lose everything.

better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Groothertog Fabrizio, die mijn neef is en de broer van wijlen mijn man, met wie ik zo kortstondig was getrouwd, heeft mij aangemoedigd voor de tweede keer in het huwelijk te treden. Ik geef graag gehoor aan zijn advies... Signor Guido Parola zal mijn prins-gemaal worden. - Lucia

What would you write if you weren't afraid?

every time I picked up a pen, this grinding, unnamed fear overcame me—later identified as fear that my real self would spill out. One can't mount a stripper pole wearing a metal diving suit. What I needed to write kept simmering up while I wrote down everything but that. In fact, I kept ginning out reasons that writing reality was impossible. I cranked up therapy and drank like a fish.

I threw away over 1,200 finished pages of my last memoir and broke the delete key on my keyboard changing my mind. If I had any balls at all, I'd make a brooch out of it.

As with everything I've ever written, I start out paralyzed by fear of failure. The tarantula ego—starving to be shored up by praise—tries to scare me away from saying simply whatever small, true thing is standing in line for me to say.

Don't approach your history as something to be shaken for its cautionary fruit…Tell your stories, and your story will be revealed…Don't be afraid of appearing angry, small-minded, obtuse, mean, immoral, amoral, calculating, or anything else. Take no care for your dignity. Those were hard things for me to come by, and I offer them to you for what they may be worth.

She was set on enduring, no matter what.she'd harden into whatever shape survival required.from that second forward, she had to figure what-all she'd have to lose for that survival, what-all and who.

But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.

But I still feel awe for us—yes, for the masters who wrought lasting beauty from their hard lives, but for the rest of us, too, for the great courage all of us show in trying to wring some truth from the godawful mess of a single life. To bring oneself to others makes the whole planet less lonely. The nobility of everybody trying boggles the mind. And

Mary Kay Andrews

She's got the face of an angel and the soul of a pit bull–piranha hybrid.

Just because I evolved, doesn't mean I am spineless. Just because I am malleable, doesn't mean I am undeserving

This is my body, and I am terrified of the space it takes up.

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?

There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.

There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.

What kind of life is it always to plan and do, to promise and finish, to wish for the near and the safe? Yes, by the heavens, if I wanted a boat I would want a boat I couldn't steer.